Integrasi

Integrasi. It is one of the programme there. It was held a few days after the Chinese returned from their Chinese New Year break. And, this programme was not conducted by the trainers in camp. It was conducted by a company called Starza. In this programme, there was 3 main topics that we studied together; Keagamaan, Kebudayaan and Peranan Lelaki & Perempuan.

Integrasi was quite an interesting programme, as we got to know more about various culture in Malaysia. We get to know about the local dialect, food, dance, traditional clothes, and more. We even get to know 'pantang larang' of different races during birth, funeral and also in daily activities. We get to know other people cultures, and they get to know our cultures, that's what we called Integrasi.

Besides that, on the last day of Integrasi, each class were required to do a presentation in the hall. Each class was given a theme. The theme given were Kematian Orang Cina, Perkahwinan Orang Cina, Tahun Baru Cina, Perkahwinan Orang Melayu, Kematian Orang Melayu, Rumah Terbuka Hari Raya and Rumah Terbuka Deepavali. My class was in charge of Rumah Terbuka Deepavali.

Among all the presentation, I preferred Kematian Orang Cina and Perkahwinan Orang Melayu. Why? Let's talk about Kematian Orang Cina. When we had our integrasi programme, the Chinese was still celebrating CNY, so it was not encourage for Chinese to do all this. Thus, the Malays played the main characters like the victim, the bomoh, etc. The Malays acting was so enjoyable. It was so hilarious to see them acting. The way the victim's family cried, the way the guy called Rabani acted like a bomoh, and many more were so so funny. As for the Perkahwinan Orang Melayu, it was quite enjoyable to see trainees acting as if they are getting marry. Although I don't really get the whole process, but I roughly know what they are trying to show us. And, the most exciting part for me was the bride and groom was sprinkled with air mawar during persandingan. It was as if it is a real marriage. Hahaha...and the bride and groom were just young teenage. Haha..

Overall, integrasi was fun. At least, we get a chance to escape from CB, which was quite boring. And also, get to learn more about our cultures and others cultures.

Pertandingan Sukan Air

I know it is kind of long since my last post. I am kind of lazy to blog...hahah...Ok, this post will be about Pertandingan Sukan Air. I will just make it short and simple.

If I am right, Pertandingan Sukan Air was held on 1st March. Everyone went to the place where we had our practice (Tanjung Dawai) with our company T-shirt as support to our company. Upon reaching there, we sang the Khidmat Negara song and soon, the competition started.

-the loyal supporters-

It started off with canoeing. We started with the single canoeing, before continueing with the double. Two company competed at once. Everyone was cheering for their own company, shouting the name of the contestants. In canoeing, ALPHA's performance was quite good. After the canoeing, the rafting took place. Rafting was a harder task to accomplish than canoeing, I feel. Each company was represented by 10 wira and 10 wirawati. Rafting required strong cooperation from the members. And whether we can win the competition or not, it all depends on the Wirawati's performance. Wira's performance is always better than Wirawati, sad to admit this but is true. In rafting, ALPHA's performance was not that good due to lack of cooperation. I meant the Wirawati.

- canoeing -

We had a short break at about 10 o'clock. After that, we continued with the competition to detemine the position of each company in both canoeing and rafting. For canoeing, ALPHA was the champion for the single category and first runner up for the double category. Meanwhile, for rafting, we lost. The overall champion for Sukan Air was Bravo and we, ALPHA was the first runner up.

- rafting -

In a nutshell, our performance in this competition was fairly good. Something remarkable on that day for me was that I got sunburn after the competition! I was busy shouting and cheering even though I was under the sun. An obvious line can be seen on my neck, 2 different skin tone noticed! It was a super hot day.

One more thing. The ALPHA wira sang this after they announced the result:

....BRAVO menang, ALPHA menang, Yang kalah, Boleh Belah!...

(can't remember the beginning of the song)